Senior Manager Supplier Quality

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a Senior Manager Supplier Quality to join our Västerås team.

In joining us you will play an important part from the very start in developing a new generation of large-scale European battery factories. Northvolt will play an important role in the transformation to a carbon-free society, and this is your opportunity to take part in leading those efforts and help drive us to success.

The Senior Manager Supplier Quality will lead, organize and manage a team of Supplier quality and development specialists, engineer and experts, will implement supplier quality standards, process and define policies in line with Northvolt’s quality objectives, customers expectations and industry standards.

The Senior Manager Supplier quality will also ensure the global quality performance of Northvolt’s supplier including qualification, development and industrialization of best-in-class suppliers in terms of Development, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Sustainability, PPAP activities, support to the sites in case of quality incident.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and scale the Supplier Quality team, including GSS team, consisting of Supplier Development and Supplier Quality Engineers driving the industrialization of Northvolt’s supply base globally.
• Assess new and existing suppliers to consistently meet requirements for performance, quality, cost, sustainability, and delivery.
• Ensure robust Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE) and Quality plans in our customer projects.
• Develop and negotiate Supplier Quality Agreements and specifications in collaboration with our Category Managers and R&D Engineers
• Develop the efficiency and effectiveness of our procedures for evaluating and qualifying new suppliers and materials and ensure that supplier selection follows a robust qualification process.
• Take ownership of our supplier evaluation and development activities to systematically drive supplier quality performance across all dimensions.
• Develop, align, and improve Supplier Quality strategy, processes, tools, and Northvolt’s Supplier
• Quality Handbook with Northvolt’s Group Quality Organization.
• Support sites in case of Quality incidents

Qualifications and experience

• Education and experience in the quality discipline
• Experience and specific knowledge of quality management systems, e.g., IATF16949, ISO9001, TQM
• 10+ years of management experience within high volume manufacturing
• Experience of supplier quality management in relevant industry, e.g., Battery Manufacturing or Materials, Automotive, Pharmaceutical, Food industries
• Experience from auditing and developing suppliers in a global setting, i.e., Asia, Europe, North America
• Experience in developing processes, manuals, standards, procedures, and documentation to support efficient Supplier Quality Management and Industrialization

Specific skills

• Good communication and leadership skills, with a multicultural team,
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to convince.

Apply with CV in English or your complete LinkedIn profile.

Full time employment, fixed salary.

Planned starting date is ASAP.